Collar-supporter.



PATENTED NOV. 6, 1906.

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UNITED sTATns PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK B. REYNOLDS, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

COLLAR-SUPPORTER.

N o. 835,228. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Nov. 6, 1906.

I A Application filed May 3l, 1906. Serial No. 319,461.

To @ZZ whom it may concern: Beit known that I, FRANK B. REYNOLDS, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Providence, in the count of Providence and State of Rhode Islan have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Collar-Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to devices or articles of jewelry of the class termed collar suport'ers or spreaders employed by ladies or maintaining lace collars in position; and it consists, essentially of a tubular bar or body member of novel construction having an (pening at each end and a pair of'indepen ent suitably-bent headed pins having the Shanks thereof arranged to be introduced into and frictionally retained in the respective ends of the bar, all as more fully hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure 1 represents, in enlarged scale, a front elevation of my improved collar-supporter.

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Fig. 2 is a corresponding side view. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 1, showing a slightlymodified form of the device. Fig. 4 is a horizontal or cross-sectional view taken on line 4 4 of Fig. 1, the pin being omitted. Fig. 5 is asimilar view taken on line 5 5 of Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a sectional view taken on line 3 3 of Fig. 3. Fig. 7 is a longitudinal central section, still further enlarged, of an end portion ofthe device, showing the manner of securing the supporter to a collar or fabric; and ig. 8 is a partial side view showing a modification of the end portion of the tubular bar. In my improved collar-supporter A the bar or body member a thereof is tubular, the hole or bore c' being central and extending longitudinally of said member and terminating in I prefer to use the integral doub e bar represented in Figs. 1, 2, 4, and 5, wherein the longitudinal edge portions of the stock are bent inwardly in opposite directions to form parallel tubes havin the adj acent sides in contact with each ot er. (See Fig. 5.) A portion of the bar is cut away transversely in front at each end to form a shoulder n and also forming the fabric-supporting extension b.

Suitable retaining-pins s are removably mounted in the bar a, the sharpened stem or shank portions d of the pins being ada ted to freely enter the holes c and be retaine therein by frictional contact with the side walls. The up er end of the shank is bent at substantia ly right angles at d and terminates in a suitable head or button h. It will be seen that longer pins may be employed in the holder or bar a, Fig. 1, than in the bar indicated in Fig. 3. In the former the pins are not in alinement, they being mounted in independent laterally-separated holes or openings, while in the latter arrangement the two pins are in alinement and supported in a Single opening or hole.

The manner of ap lying or attaching my improved supporter to lace collars may be described as follows: The bar or bod member a is first positioned or located andY placed flatwise upon and transversely of the collar and at the front or back of the latter as desired, followed by inserting the shank of each pin s through the fabric f of the collar and into the adJacent end of the corresponding opening c and contiguousto the shoulder n. The pin is then pressed endwise in said opening, thereby at the same time frictionally clamping a portion of the material of the collar between the pins shank and the adjacent surface of the extension b, as clearly represented in Fig. 7.

In some cases the wearer may prefer to press the pin downwardly in the bar to its limit or until its head ortion is arrested by the shoulder n, as in icated by the dotted lines in Fig. 7, the collar or fabric f in such case worldng around the bend or angle of the pin onto the short part d of the shank, all as shown by dotted lines in said figure.

I claim as my invention- 1. As an article of manufacture the improved collar-supporter herein described, the same comprisin an inte al or one-piece bar having the stoc thereo bent to produce a pair of parallel longitudinally extending*-` tubes open throu hout their length and be- Y ing in f'substantia contact with each other, and a pair of independent pins removably mounted in said tubes, substantially as shown and describe 2. In a collar-supporter, the combination of a one-piece tubulal barinember having each l Signed at Providence, Rhode Island, this elld thereof progided'iwith a shpulder and 'a 29th day of May, 1906. s ort extension' an a air o op osite disposed independent pinsiemovablmouni FRANK B' REYNOLDS 5 ed in said tube, said pins adapted when in use Witnesses:

to pierce the fabric and to press it against the GEO. H. REMINGTON, adj acent surface of said extensions. A. SULLIVAN. 

